Weather

Being English, it's only natural for me to tell you all about the weather here.  One thing I loved about my past experience in Germany is that the country has proper seasons.  Winter is cold, and Summer is hot, certainly the latter part of that seems to have disappeared in England.  However, even here in Germany the weather is starting to get temperamental.  

As I have already mentioned, the weather has been glorious since we arrived in the new flat.  It's been in the high twenties most days and even with our balcony doors and all the windows open, we don't get much relief.  Then on Wednesday night, the weather broke after all the humidity and we had one hell of a thunderstorm.  So much so that Bremen looked like this yesterday:

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Many Bremen students, our house guest Frankie among them, struggled to get into uni yesterday or basically anywhere north of the city centre, where roads, sewers and cellars were all filled with water.  What really surprised me on the news reports were the number of car drivers who really thought they were better than all of the other (sometimes bigger) cars turning around and actually tried to drive through it!

One sad little part of the whole thing was right on our doorstep.  Although we didn't have flooded streets, we do have a water channel running up the side of our house where we had been observing a mother duck protecting her eggs in the nest since we moved in on Saturday.  Unfortunately there is no sign of mother or eggs.